Recently Ikea changed it’s house font from a modified version of Futura to the ubiquitous Verdana. Cue the freakout. Designers and typophilles all over the internet have been decrying the change. Even Time Magazine has written about the font controversy.
All this outrage over a font? For some designers, it’s an issue of propriety — […]

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference in Long Beach, California. Each year the world’s foremost thinkers get together to give and listen to speeches. The excellent TED website hosts over 200 of these videos and adds more each day. I try to watch at least one per day. They have broadened my mind, […]

I Love Typography has a Rather Difficult Font Game that is both challenging and fun.

Give it a spin. I got a 26/34. What’s your score?
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Typographunnies is a website dedicated to user submitted, and voted upon, jokes based upon typography. Wow! It’s filled with pretty bad puns, but I cracked a smile on a few and even laughed pretty hard once or twice. If you’re a typographer, graphic designer, web designer, or deal with type on a daily basis in […]

Over at Empire they have a quiz that tests your typographic memory by identifying films from individual letterforms found on their posters.

I got a 22 out of 46, which sounds pretty bad, but it’s HARD… How did you do?
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